Just out of interest, the following have been the main ezone Slog stories over the last ten days or so:
* Seventy-five different versions of the value of the new bailout fund, and a hissy fit from Juncker
* Greek central bank printing unauthorised euros
* Greek political Parties adding sneaky amendments to undermine the Troika Agreement
* ECB paying Greek bailout ‘money’ in a substance that is not money, as such
* Bundesbank bans several ClubMed bonds as collateral
* Berlin issues statement saying Bundesbank didn’t actually say that
* Monetary central bank exchange mechanism has been turned into a credit scam
* Italy’s Mario Monti says it was all the fault of Franco-German indiscipline
* Germany secretly bans migrant job-seekers, and thus breaks Treaty of Lisbon
* The Troika bailout DEEPENS Greek obligations (that it can’t pay) by £1bn A MONTH
In the light of this daily tale of directionless dissembling and fantasy, I feel it necessary to remind those readers across the Channel who detest British sarcasm and cynicism why – when it comes to the eurozone – there’s a lot for us to be cynical and sarcastic about. Happily, such mad people are (in my experience anyway) very much in the minority: most of my French, German and Dutch friends find Ruritanian chocolate-headed soldiers like van Rompuy and Regler just as pompously ridiculous as the Brits do. Hurrah. The final thing uniting Europe turns out to be disdain for the clowns running the EU: how deliciously ironic that is. Amen.
So in recognition of this, those folks fascinated by the accelerating EU descent into madness can now read the full and updated story at the new dedicated Slogpage, The Euroblown Crisis.
Put it in your favourites thingy. You Know it Makes Sense.




